A stormy coastal challenge Al Seib / Los Angeles Times 2015 High surf crashes into the sea wall at Will Rogers State Beach along the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles County. Climate change is running smack into property rights in the form of a pending law that would rein in scofflaw homeowners along California’s […]
Continue ReadingClick here to view the draft resolution for a comprehensive response to climate change.
Continue ReadingClick here to read the opinion released yesterday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the ESA listing of the Arctic bearded seal based on projections that climate change would severely threaten their habitat by the year 2095. LA Times article on the matter can be read here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-species-climate-projections-20161024-snap-story.html
Continue ReadingBAY AREA CLIMATE NEWS August 2016 The Big Picture Climate Change: 2 Platforms We’re Lucky Climate Change Did Not Happen Sooner David Archer’s fascinating proposal, published in Climatic Change, that we are VERY fortunate the pre-industrial CO2 level was 280 ppm in 1750. If this “background” CO2level had been substantially lower, our fossil fuel burning […]
Continue ReadingRising reality By John King May 2016 Fifty years ago, Bay Area residents rallied around the call to save San Francisco Bay. Public action on an unprecedented scale reversed development tides that for more than a century had covered shallow waters with land for industrial parks and housing tracts, roadways and garbage dumps. Now the […]
Continue ReadingRIMS 2016: Sea Level Rise Will Be Worse and Come Sooner By Don Jergler | April 12, 2016 Think sea level rise will be moderate and something we can all plan for? Think again. Sea levels could rise by much more than originally anticipated, and much faster, according to new data being collected by scientists […]
Continue ReadingFixes to seawall will cost $5 billion, Port Commission says Apr 12, 2016, 6:49am PDT Fixes to San Francisco’s northern seawall could cost as much at $5 billion, a new report from the Port Commission has found, and should be put in place over the next 10 years to protect the entire seafront from earthquakes and […]
Continue ReadingClimate resilience news and announcements From the Desk of Emilie The regulatory landscape of climate risk disclosure is evolving rapidly. The SEC just ruled in favor of shareholder efforts to promote more transparency on climate risk in ExxonMobil’s financial disclosures, while the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures published its first report last […]
Continue ReadingBAY AREA CLIMATE NEWS March 2016 The Big Picture Adaptation is the Sixth Pillar (That’s Us!) Unusually Warm Winter in Arctic Stuns Scientists “For the Arctic, this is definitely the strangest winter I have ever seen.” – NSIDC Director Mark Serreze. Air temps in January 13˚F above average with northern Norway 19˚F above average. Lowest January sea […]
Continue ReadingSeaChange SMC Updates & Announcements SeaChange SMC Updates & Announcements Upcoming Events Pacifica’s Environmental Family 6:30 p.m. | Thursday, March 24, 2016 Sea Level Rise: Pacifica’s Choices Join experts to examine and ask questions about the realities of Sea Level Rise in Pacifica at a free forum sponsored by Pacifica’s Environmental Family and the Pacifica Climate […]
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